"Leon" wrote in message
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"sweet sawdust" wrote in message
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For those of you who were laughing and having strokes over my Hazard
Mitigation posts, here is how one incident went down:

Plan written about a year ago, tested with exercise, rewritten,
everything perfect. Scene was at a public park boat docking facility.
Boat one was transferring diesel from main fueling tank to tank on boat
using an automatic transfer pump, plan says to stay with boat when
refueling (sign posted on tank). He leaves to go get a sandwich or
something, pump does not shut off, 150 gal of fuel in water at boat dock
( at about $5 a gal). 911 call made, onsite responders start response,
main responders show up. Booms put out spill contained, evacuation of
other boats at dock started, everyone taken to new location as per plan,
perfect. Cleanup crew arrives and starts to clean up spill, one boat
owner dumps about a gallon of Dawn in to water to keep oil off boat
before he leaves, dredges brought in to take care of oil at bottom of
lake, everything under control. Boat two was out in lake and decided to
go to dock to pick up something, comes to booms and unhooks them to get
to dock allowing spill to drain out into main current of lake. New booms
deployed to contain new spill, boat two owner detained and told he was
to be charged with cost of recovery for all oil past original spill. Time
to contain original spill 3 hours, time to contain second spill 3
additional hours. cost $10,000 per hour + equipment. Government will pay
big part of tab for boat one and none for boat two. Mistakes made,
allowing untrained humans to have anything to do with any mildly
hazardous material or any equipment with moving parts. Not following plan
and leaving pump running and not having security in water outside of boom
area. Immediately after this event ended, report of liquid Pig Manure
being sprayed on cars driving along the interstate. Response made and
problem resolved. Have never written a plan for that or even considered
it before.

So no matter how hard I work to write a plan or how perfect it is, some
one will do something to make it worthless, Thought you might enjoy the
story Leon.

Wood connection: dock was made of wood

It was a good story. Rules for staying with the boat could have made
things worse had he stayed in the boat. slipped, fell, and knocked himself
out because the fuel nozzle did not shut off.

Not worse just an EMS run and he would be charged more for the spill.

Leaving the boat did not cause
mother nature to kinck in and spill fuel.

I guess that the fuel nozzle should be over hauled and double checked by 2
separate people before each refueling. ;~)

I will add that to the revised plan, something else for them to ignore.